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Juan Sebastián Elcano
1:110 · Spanish Navy training ship, built 1927
The Juan Sebastián de Elcano is a four-masted topsail schooner built in Cádiz in 1927 as a training ship for the Spanish Navy. She is one of the largest tall ships in the world: 113 m long, 13.11 m wide and 9.00 m deep to the deck. She carries the Elcano coat of arms, granted to the family by Emperor Charles I of Spain after Elcano’s return in 1522.
The ship’s namesake
Juan Sebastián Elcano was the Spanish navigator who completed the first circumnavigation of the globe. He sailed in 1519 under the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, with five ships (Concepción, San Antonio, Santiago, Trinidad and Victoria) and 241 men. The voyage was plagued by storms, mutiny and hostile encounters, and Magellan was killed in the Philippines.
Elcano took command of the Victoria and sailed her home westward across the Indian and Atlantic oceans. She reached Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain, on 6 September 1522 with 18 survivors. By the account of Antonio Pigafetta, an Italian scholar on board, they had sailed about 81,449 kilometres.
About the model
The model is built at 1:110 scale with all four masts fully rigged and sails set.